Donbass. Borderland
(2019)
★ 3.6 IMDb · 383 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 96 min
Country: Russia
Director: Ренат Давлетьяров
Cast: Гела Месхи, Евгений Михеев, Сергей Холмогоров, Ulyana Pokhlebaeva, Анна Пескова
Plot
A film about a young soldier of the Ukrainian army, Andrei Sokolov, who is sent to the combat zone as a driver. Fleeing from the shelling, he finds himself in the basement of a dwelling house, where he meets different people, each of whom dreams of ending the Russian invasion.
Quite weak film that is definitely trying to promote official Russian position about the war in Ukraine (i.e. "not present" Russian soldiers there).Along with a lot of such political cliches there are funny obvious factual mistakes such as Ukrainian soldiers wearing Russian camouflage (they just put Ukrainian flags on it). So even from the point of view of standards of good war drama (if not talking about politics) "Donbass. Okraina" is a poor piece.But the main point is that this film pretend to be "based on a true story", that is a completely untruth.